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Funding for the federal government runs out Friday at midnight. House Democrats passed a short term measure Thursday to keep the government funded through February, but a group of Republican lawmakers in the Senate are threatening to force a shutdown

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The House has passed a bill that funds the government through Feb. 18 and avoids a short-term shutdown after midnight Friday.

Kids in Delhi, India, have been indoors for 20 months –- first for COVID, now for smog beyond four times what’s safe. Officials have installed towers to filter it, but scientists say they don’t work.

The four have targeted Belarus since President Alexander Lukashenko won yet another term in office last year after elections that the West and other observers say were fraudulent.

The German government is imposing tighter restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, and is planning legislation to make vaccination mandatory in early 2022.

When the first accuser in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell took the stand on Nov. 30, she spoke of meeting Maxwell and her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein at a summer arts camp when she was 14 years old. Identified by

More than 7.5 million Filipinos got COVID vaccines in just three days this week — an impressive milestone in the country’s battle against the pandemic.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Saad Omer about the effectiveness of travel bans now that the omicron variant has been discovered in the United States.